First time member & for some reason this is the 1st song I wanted to write a review about. I do understand why this was a hit. It's catchy & the masses loved it. However my problem with this song is if you can download it for $2 back in 2011 why wouldn't you it's a novelty song. LMFAO made a habit of it with a novelty song. It sold 800,000 downloads in Australia.Now think about this for a minute Achy Breaky Heart in 1992 or The Macarena in 1996 sold around 250,000 copies in Australia & people actually went to the record store & bought the song for $3-7 depending if it was a CD single or cassette single. Both were come out of nowhere hits...though Billy Ray Cyrus was an established country star. If you could download back in the 1990's for $2 imagine how many copies they would have sold I'm guessing more than 1,000,000. My point I know times have changed but no way is this a better single or song than the above though they both stink as well.

Meh I don't mind this as much as the succeeding singles (*cough* "Sexy and I Know It"), but it's still generic crap. I remember sort of liking it at first but I don't like it now. It is quite shameful that this was so successful and just shows that Australians will buy anything that's generic or catchy.

Overplayed to death in 2011 and even a bit in 2012 has made this unbearable and has aged horrifically too. Only thing stopping this from a 1 is that I don't hear it anymore. 1 of the most overrated hits in history.

The song that just wouldn't go away in 2011/2012 seems to have finally started being forgotten. I think this is the most overrated song of all time, and I swear to god if I have to hear the term 'Party Rocking' one more time, someones gonna get hurt.

The song that just wouldn't go away and was overplayed to death in 2011.

I remember when it was at #1 and everyone was saying how awesome it was and eveyone was shuffling, I never understood the fuss over it and it would have been 1 star at the time. By about December 2011 when it finally stopped being overplayed to death I started to enjoy it a little and it would've been 3 stars. Unfortunately though in PE last year we had to learn how to shuffle and dance to the song. I remember the teachers played the shuffling bits of the song over and over again while we were practicing. Now because of that it's back down to a 2.

It annoys me that this has had this undeserved success around the world, particularly in Australia. I will commend it that the beat is alright and it is a little catchy but it's not deserving of more than 2 stars. The worst thing about the success of this imo is not that it's become one of the biggest selling and best charting songs of all time but the fact that that their other songs that followed managed to have undeserved chart success off the back of this.

It's definitely one of their best efforts though, which just shows how shit this group and their music is.Dernière édition: 01/02/2014 12:15

Still #22 on the Oz charts with a 41-week run thus far... has gone 9xPlatinum (over 630000 copies sold) and I reckon it will break the 10xPlatinum mark in the next couple of weeks, which means over 700000 copies sold in this country alone.

And yes, people are correct in saying that this is the 2nd biggest selling single in Australia of all time (and in fact, the biggest in the download era).

Looking back, its not such a bad #1.. though it was incredibly over exposed and while its an alright song, it most deffinately has not deserved the success it has obtained - one of the highest selling singles in AUS of all time now, it might be only 2nd behind candle in the wind? I dunno.

I can't believe some autotune shit made it to number 1 for 10 weeks. I feel sorry for the the real ROCK artists who made better ROCK anthems in recent years and never saw the day of light on the charts. A real ROCK anthem is, for example, the 1975 KISS song "ROCK and roll all nite" is what I call a ROCK anthem. This is just a poor insult to ROCK that teenagers are addicted to these days. So when there is another fake ROCK anthem 2day FM radio tells you to buy, don't buy it! IT IS BAD FOR YOUR EARS AND BRAIN!

In theory I should hate this song with a passion. But strange'y it doen't annoy me and in fact I found myself singing along and tapping my foot whenever it is on. It's just a pity that it hung around forever in the Top 20 in Australia that it is testing my patience with WHY it has been and continued to be massive. Will go down as a song that needs to be played at weddings.

Amazing song. Easy to hate it because it was/is massively overplayed, spent ten weeks at #1 and somehow became the second highest selling song in Australian history... but I still love it.

I've had many amazing nights on the dancefloor at parties with this song, it has a great memorable music video, started a dance craze bringing the Melbourne shuffle to international recognition and is just well... good-damn, harmless fun!

The shuffling bits are a little annoying, but the song isn't all that bad. Definitely not worthy of #1, let alone for multiple weeks. I'll probably never like an LMFAO song more than I do this (and that isn't saying much), so wish they'd just retire already!

Looks this is going to become the biggest song in ARIA Charts history (and by quite some distance). It is number 2 of all time already and still charting at Number 16. Dernière édition: 22/10/2011 13:23

I'm not entirely sure why this song deserves to exist.... let alone it's success.The fact that this song is not going away is making me want to hurt small children >:(Dernière édition: 01/06/2011 10:14

Pop Music just keeps getting dumber and dumber. Its incredible how dumb music is these days. Its disgraceful that this will go #1.It doesnt let me think. It works against my mind rather than with it. I hate it so much.

This is good as a once in a while listen but too much and it's very annoying. 314,749 sold while at #1. LMFAO's second UK#1. UK#1 and Ireland#1. US#1. 1.1 million copies sold in the UK.Dernière édition: 04/11/2012 21:26

I don't hate it as much as I did when it was lodged at #1 around the world. The song is surprisingly catchy and, when drunk, it is hard not to sing a long to the incredibly simplistic chorus while trying to 'shuffle'.

However the success that this has had is absolutely crazy. It actually scares me. I just hope this phase and this band die quickly so that we are not subjected to more of this crap.

It is also the only LMFAO track that is listenable from start to finish for me. The next three singles are nominees for worst song ever.Dernière édition: 13/03/2012 13:44

There's a lot I find interesting with this, and a lot of it hasn't got much to do with the music. Prior to this, I always thought that the success of LMFAO was limited by the demographic of people who are too self-serious to download a song by an artist called 'LMFAO' and subsequently play it back on their iPod, and they sure proved me wrong. I guess they called it themselves with a rather prophetic video that demonstrates the infectious nature of it, and it being glued to the top of the charts replicated the unstoppable force that was the 'Party Rock' movement. I actually find it quite funny that they go out of their way to piss off rockists by including 'rock' in the title, and then going further by needlessly namedropping Led Zeppelin.

I do feel like this song came at the right time though. Having listened back to a lot of 2010 pop recently, there's a definite divide between then and now that comes roughly around when this song hit. This song employs a rather boisterous synth that holds most of the song together, but if you compare it to a lot of earlier counterparts, they often bloop around with no spark, and drag down whatever song they're in. This on the other hand, is all the better for being anchored by a synth that actually has some life to it, and from a 2014 perspective, I can still listen to this without being bogged down by how dated it sounds.

That being said, this song is shockingly not without its flaws. For instance, the lyrics are a bit of a mush of nothing, it falls back on a big, dumb chorus that really doesn't have much lasting power, and by the second half of the song, there's a clear sign to me that they don't have a good way to keep the song interesting. As a result, we get the choruses mashed together and re-arranged, and we get a totally unnecessary additional vocal hook in the bridge from Lauren Bennett. That being said, with the release of tension brought on by a quick pause, after that bridge is perhaps the only time that the chorus makes for a satisfying pay off.

I can never fairly judge this song, just because on one hand it's LMFAO, and on the other hand, it's very good for LMFAO. Maybe I'll start to groan at it in another few years, but for now it's not a problem. 3.3Dernière édition: 22/08/2014 21:09

As stupid and mindless as this is, not to mention how incredibly popular and overplayed it is, I can't help but enjoy it. I'm reluctantly glad that this has reached the heights of the best of all time list.Dernière édition: 18/12/2011 03:21